Fwd: AUTO EDITOR DIDN'T WORK

[gene heskett]

On 6/13/23 19:10, Thomas Passin via Python-list wrote:
> On 6/13/2023 5:32 PM, Alan Gauld via Python-list wrote:
>> Okay thanks. Meanwhile, I am not tech savvy so I may not say much here.
>> I followed all the commands as given on the website to install auto
>> editor standing it on python but after rendering the XML file, I
>> couldn't open it with my Davinci Resolve 18. I uninstalled and
>> reinstalled about twice and still no success hence I uninstalled it.
> 
> I don't understand when you talk about an "XML file". Auto-editor works 
> on video files, or at least .mp4 files, which are not XML files. Davinci 
> Resolve does have some ability to interoperate with other editors using 
> XML in some way (according to Wikipedia, 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DaVinci_Resolve) but that's a different 
> thing completely.
> 
> I also don't know what you mean by "after rendering the XML file" since 
> from what I can see auto-edit doesn't render anything.
> 
> The simplest thing that auto-editor can do is to cut out long periods of 
> dead space, e.g., from an mp4 file.  Their documentation shows how to do 
> it.  If it were me, I would run the example command line on a sample mp4 
> file, then see what it looked like in Davinci.  Is that what you did? It 
> should be the same video but with some dead space removed.
> 
> (Note that I'm speaking from a place of no experience with either of 
> these software packages; just looking at what auto-edit claims to do).
> 
> 
> 
auto-edit? Never heard of it. xml? I've written hundred of kilobytes of 
it in plain old geany. I didn't know there was a special editor for xml.

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